List of counties in Minnesota
The US -American state of Minnesota 's 87 counties divided. The official abbreviation for Minnesota is MN and the FIPS code is 27 . The FIPS code of each individual counties therefore always starts with 27 , followed by the three-digit number for each county as shown in the table.
The population figures shown in the table are based on the results of the 2010 census .
county | FIPS code | County Seat | founding | origin | Origin of name | Residents 2010 |
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Aitkin | 001 | Aitkin | 1857 | Pine County, Ramsey County | William Alexander Aitken (1785–1851), one of the first white traders with the Ojibwe | 16.202 | 4,712 km² | |
Anoka | 003 | Anoka | 1857 | Ramsey County | Lakota word for "both sides" | 330,844 | 1,097 km² | |
Becker | 005 | Detroit Lakes | 1858 | Cass County, Pembina County | George Loomis Becker (1829–1904), Senator in Minnesota and Mayor of Saint Paul (1856–1857) | 32.504 | 3,394 km² | |
Beltrami | 007 | Bemidji | 1866 | Indian Land as well as Itasca County, Pembina County, Polk County | Giacomo Beltrami , Italian explorer, explored the upper reaches of the Mississippi | 44,442 | 6,489 km² | |
Benton | 009 | Foley | 1849 | One of the nine original counties | Thomas Hart Benton (1782-1858), US Senator from Missouri (1821-1851) | 38,451 | 1,057 km² | |
Big Stone | 011 | Ortonville | 1862 | Pierce County | Big Stone Lake , a county located lake | 5,269 | 1,287 km² | |
Blue earth | 013 | Mankato | 1853 | Indian Land, Dakota County | The Blue Earth River flows through the county | 64.013 | 1,949 km² | |
Brown | 015 | New Ulm | 1855 | Blue Earth County | Joseph R. Brown (1805–1870), Minnesota Territory Pioneer and MP (1854–55) | 25,893 | 1,582 km² | |
Carlton | 017 | Carlton | 1857 | Pine County, St. Louis County | Rueben B. Carlton (1812–1863), Minnesota pioneer and senator (1857–1858) | 35,386 | 2,228 km² | |
Carver | 019 | Chaska | 1855 | Hennepin County, Sibley County | Jonathan Carver (1710–1780), early explorer and cartographer of the Mississippi area | 91,042 | 925 km² | |
Cass | 021 | Walker | 1851 | Dakota County, Pembina County, Mankahto County, Wahnata County | Lewis Cass (1782–1866), US Senator from Michigan (1845–1857) US Secretary of State (1831–1836) | 28,567 | 5,226 km² | |
Chippewa | 023 | Montevideo | 1870 | Pierce County, Davis County | The Chippewa River flows through the county | 12,441 | 1,509 km² | |
Chisago | 025 | Center City | 1851 | Washington County, Ramsey County | Chisago Lake , a county located lake | 53,887 | 1,082 km² | |
Clay | 027 | Moorhead | 1862 | Pembina County | Henry Clay (1777–1852), Kentucky politician and ninth US Secretary of State (1825–1829) | 58,999 | 2,707 km² | |
Clearwater | 029 | Bagley | 1902 | Beltrami County | The Clearwater River flows through the county | 8,695 | 2,576 km² | |
cook | 031 | Grand Marais | 1874 | Lake County | Michael Cook , Minnesota Senator (1857–1862) | 5,176 | 3,757 km² | |
Cottonwood | 033 | Windom | 1857 | Brown County | The Cottonwood River flows through the county | 11,687 | 1,658 km² | |
Crow Wing | 035 | Brainerd | 1857 | Ramsey County | The Crow Wing River flows through the county | 62,500 | 2,581 km² | |
Dakota | 037 | Hastings | 1849 | One of the nine original counties | Indian tribe of the Dakota | 398,552 | 1,475 km² | |
Dodge | 039 | Mantorville | 1855 | Rice County, Indian Land | Henry Dodge (1782–1867), first governor of the Wisconsin Territory (1836–1841 and 1845–1848) | 20,087 | 1,138 km² | |
Douglas | 041 | Alexandria | 1858 | Cass County, Pembina County | Stephen A. Douglas (1813–1861), US Senator from Illinois (1847–1861), presidential candidate against Abraham Lincoln | 36.009 | 1,643 km² | |
Faribault | 043 | Blue earth | 1855 | Blue Earth County | Jean-Baptiste Faribault (1775–1860), one of the first settlers and fur traders | 14,553 | 1,848 km² | |
Fillmore | 045 | Preston | 1853 | Wabasha County | Millard Fillmore (1800–1874), thirteenth President of the United States (1850–1853) | 20,866 | 2,231 km² | |
Freeborn | 047 | Albert Lea | 1855 | Blue Earth County, Rice County | William S. Freeborn (1816–1900), MP in the Minnesota Territory | 31,255 | 1,833 km² | |
Goodhue | 049 | Red Wing | 1853 | Wabasha County, Dakota County | James Madison Goodhue (1810-1852), first newspaper publisher in Minnesota | 46.183 | 1,964 km² | |
Grant | 051 | Elbow Lake | 1868 | Stevens County, Wilkin County, Traverse County | Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885), General in the United States Army and 18th President of the United States (1869–1877) | 6,018 | 1,415 km² | |
Hennepin | 053 | Minneapolis | 1852 | Dakota County | Louis Hennepin (1626–1705), a Belgian missionary and early explorer of the area around today's Twin Cities | 1,152,425 | 1,442 km² | |
Houston | 055 | Caledonia | 1854 | Fillmore County | Sam Houston (1793–1863), second and fourth President of the Republic of Texas (1836–1836 and 1841–1844) and seventh Governor of Texas (1859–1861) | 19,027 | 1,446 km² | |
Hubbard | 057 | Park Rapids | 1883 | Cass County | Lucius Frederick Hubbard (1836–1913), ninth Governor of Minnesota (1882–1887) | 20,428 | 2,389 km² | |
Isanti | 059 | Cambridge | 1857 | Ramsey County | Name of a sub-tribe of the Dakota | 37,816 | 1,137 km² | |
Itasca | 061 | Grand Rapids | 1849 | One of the nine original counties | Lake Itasca , source lake of the Mississippi River | 45,058 | 6,902 km² | |
Jackson | 063 | Jackson | 1857 | Brown County | Henry Jackson , MP in the Minnesota Territory | 10,266 | 1,817 km² | |
Kanabec | 065 | Mora | 1858 | Pine County | Kan-a-bec-o-si-pi Qjibwe -word for Snake River (Snake River), which flows through the County | 16,239 | 1,360 km² | |
Kandiyohi | 067 | Willmar | 1858 | Meeker County, Renville County, Pierce County, Davis County, Stearns County | Lakota word for "buffalo fish" | 42,239 | 2,062 km² | |
Kittson | 069 | Hallock | 1879 | Pembina County | Norman Kittson (1814-1888), businessman and Mayor of Saint Paul (1858-1859) | 4,552 | 2,841 km² | |
Koochiching | 071 | International Falls | 1806 | Itasca County | Indian expression | 13,311 | 8,035 km² | |
Lac qui Parle | 073 | Madison | 1863 | Redwood County | French expression for "lake that speaks" | 7,259 | 1,981 km² | |
Lake | 075 | Two harbors | 1856 | Itasca County | Lake Superior (Lake Superior) to which the adjacent County | 10,866 | 5,437 km² | |
Lake of the Woods | 077 | Baudette | 1923 | Beltrami County | Lake of the Woods , on the shore of which the county borders | 4,045 | 3,358 km² | |
Le Sueur | 079 | Le Center | 1853 | Dakota County | Pierre-Charles Le Sueur (1657–1704), fur trader and one of the first to explore the Minnesota River area | 27,703 | 1,162 km² | |
Lincoln | 081 | Ivanhoe | 1873 | Lyon County | Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), 16th President of the United States (1861–1865) | 5,896 | 1,391 km² | |
Lyon | 083 | Marshall | 1871 | Redwood County | Nathaniel Lyon (1818-1861), General of the Union Army in the Civil War was | 25,857 | 1,850 km² | |
McLeod | 085 | Glencoe | 1856 | Carver County, Sibley County | Martin McLeod , Minnesota Territory MP (1849-1856) | 36,651 | 1,274 km² | |
Reminders | 087 | Reminders | 1906 | Norman County | Ojibwe word for "wild rice" | 5,413 | 1,440 km² | |
Marshall | 089 | Warren | 1879 | Kittson County | William Rainey Marshall (1825–1896), fifth Governor of Minnesota (1866–1870) | 9,439 | 4,590 km² | |
Martin | 091 | Fairmont | 1857 | Faribault County, Brown County | Morgan Lewis Martin , US Congressman from the Wisconsin Territory | 20,840 | 1,837 km² | |
Meeker | 093 | Litchfield | 1856 | Davis County | Bradley B. Meeker (1813–1873), Minnesota Territory Supreme Court Justice (1849–1853) | 23,300 | 1,576 km² | |
Mille Lacs | 095 | Milaca | 1857 | Ramsey County | Mille Lacs Lake , a county lake | 26.097 | 1,488 km² | |
Morrison | 097 | Little Falls | 1856 | Benton County | William and Allan Morrison , fur trading brothers | 33,198 | 2,912 km² | |
Mower | 099 | Austin | 1855 | Rice County | John Edward Mower (1815–1879), MP in the Minnesota Territory in the 1850s | 39.163 | 1,843 km² | |
Murray | 101 | Slayton | 1857 | Brown County | William Pitt Murray (1825-1910), MP in the Minnesota Territory (1852-1855 and 1857) | 8,725 | 1,824 km² | |
Nicollet | 103 | Saint Peter | 1853 | Dakota County | Joseph Nicolas Nicollet (1786–1843), early explorer and cartographer of the Mississippi region | 32,727 | 1,171 km² | |
Classy | 105 | Worthington | 1857 | Brown County | William H. Nobles , MP in the Minnesota Territory (1854-1856) | 21,378 | 1,853 km² | |
Norman | 107 | Ada | 1881 | Polk County | The first Norwegian settlers, including "Normans" (Engl .: " Norman called") | 6,852 | 2,270 km² | |
Olmsted | 109 | Rochester | 1855 | Fillmore County, Wabasha County, Rice County | David Olmsted , first Mayor of Saint Paul and MP in the Minnesota Territory (1849–1850) | 144,248 | 1,691 km² | |
Otter Tail | 111 | Fergus Falls | 1858 | Pembina County, Cass County | Otter Tail Lake , the largest lake in the county | 57,303 | 5,127 km² | |
Pennington | 113 | Thief River Falls | 1910 | Red Lake County | Edmund Pennington (born 1848), Chairman of Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railway | 13,930 | 1,597 km² | |
Pine | 115 | Pine City | 1856 | Chisago County, Ramsey County | Vast forests with White Pine - and Red Rine - Inventory | 29,750 | 3,655 km² | |
Pipestone | 117 | Pipestone | 1857 | Brown County | Occurrence of the "sacred whistle stone" of the Dakota | 9,596 | 1,207 km² | |
Polk | 119 | Crookston | 1858 | Pembina County | James K. Polk (1795–1849), eleventh President of the United States (1845–1849) | 31,600 | 5,103 km² | |
Pope | 121 | Glenwood | 1862 | Pierce County, Cass County, Indian Land | John Pope (1822–1892), General in the US Army , fought in the Civil War and the Sioux uprising in 1862 | 10,995 | 1,736 km² | |
Ramsey | 123 | Saint Paul | 1849 | One of the nine original counties | Alexander Ramsey (1815–1903), second governor of Minnesota (1860–1863) | 508,640 | 403 km² | |
Red Lake | 125 | Red Lake Falls | 1896 | Polk County | The Red Lake River runs through the county | 4,089 | 1,120 km² | |
redwood | 127 | Redwood Falls | 1862 | Brown County | The Redwood River flows through the county | 16,059 | 2,278 km² | |
Renville | 129 | Olivia | 1855 | Nicollet County, Pierce County, Sibley County | Joseph Renville (1779–1846), interpreter on many voyages of discovery after the Louisiana Purchase | 15,730 | 2,546 km² | |
Rice | 131 | Faribault | 1853 | Dakota County, Wabasha County | Henry Mower Rice (1816–1894), US Senator from Minnesota (1858–1863) | 64,142 | 1,289 km² | |
skirt | 133 | Luverne | 1857 | Brown County | Rocky plateau in the county | 9,687 | 1,250 km² | |
Roseau | 135 | Roseau | 1894 | Kittson County, Beltrami County | The Roseau River flows through the county | 15,629 | 4,306 km² | |
St. Louis | 137 | Duluth | 1855 | Itasca County, Newton County | The St. Louis River flows through the county | 200.226 | 16,123 km² | |
Scott | 139 | Shakopee | 1853 | Dakota County | General Winfield Scott (1786–1866) served in the US Army from 1808 to 1861 . | 129,928 | 924 km² | |
Sherburne | 141 | Elk River | 1856 | Benton County | Moses Sherburne (1813–1873), Supreme Court Justice of the Minnesota Territory (1853–1857) | 88,499 | 1,130 km² | |
Sibley | 143 | Gaylord | 1853 | Dakota County | Henry Hastings Sibley (1811–1891), first governor of Minnesota (1858–1860) | 15,226 | 1,525 km² | |
Stearns | 145 | St. Cloud | 1855 | Cass County, Nicollet County, Pierce County, Sibley County | Charles Thomas Stearns (1814–1888), one of the first settlers of St. Cloud and MP in Minnesota (1849–1858) | 150,642 | 3,482 km² | |
Steele | 147 | Owatonna | 1855 | Rice County, Blue Earth County, Le Sueur County | Franklin Steele (1813-1880), early settler in Minneapolis, was a dam in the area of Saint Anthony Falls Create | 36,576 | 1,113 km² | |
Stevens | 149 | Morris | 1862 | Pierce County, Indian Land | Isaac Ingalls Stevens (1818–1862), first governor of the Washington Territory (1853–1857) | 9,726 | 1,456 km² | |
Swift | 151 | Benson | 1870 | Chippewa County | Henry Adoniram Swift (1823–1869), third governor of Minnesota (1863–1864) | 9,783 | 1,926 km² | |
Todd | 153 | Long prairie | 1855 | Cass County | John Blair Smith Todd , general in the American Civil War ; MP (1861 and 1863–65) in the Dakota Territory | 24,895 | 2,440 km² | |
traverse | 155 | Wheaton | 1862 | Pierce County, Indian Land | Lake Traverse, a county lake | 3,558 | 1,487 km² | |
Wabasha | 157 | Wabasha | 1849 | One of the nine original counties | Wabasha III, chief of the Mdewakanton Indian tribe | 21,676 | 1,360 km² | |
Wadena | 159 | Wadena | 1858 | Cass County, Todd County | Ojibwe word for "small round hill" | 13,843 | 1,386 km² | |
Waseca | 161 | Waseca | 1857 | Steele County | Lakota word for "rich and productive" | 19,136 | 1,096 km² | |
Washington | 163 | Stillwater | 1849 | One of the nine original counties | George Washington (1732–1799), first President of the United States (1789–1797) | 238.136 | 1,014 km² | |
Watonwan | 165 | Saint James | 1860 | Brown County | The Watonwan River flows through the county. | 11,211 | 1,125 km² | |
Wilkin | 167 | Breckenridge | 1858 | Cass County, Pembina County | Alexander Wilkin (1820–1864), Minnesota politician and military, died in the American Civil War | 6,576 | 1,946 km² | |
Winona | 169 | Winona | 1854 | Fillmore County, Wabasha County | Wee-No-Nah, relative of Indian chief Wabasha III | 51,461 | 1,622 km² | |
Wright | 171 | Buffalo | 1855 | Cass County, Sibley County | Silas Wright (1795–1847), US Senator from New York (1833–1844) | 124,700 | 1,711 km² | |
Yellow Medicine | 173 | Granite Falls | 1871 | Redwood County | The Yellow Medicine River flows through the county. | 10,438 | 1,963 km² |
Individual evidence
- ↑ US Census Bureau - State & County QuickFacts ( Memento of December 2, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ United States Census 2010.Retrieved March 16, 2011
- ↑ US Census Bureau - State & County QuickFacts ( Memento of December 2, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Figures in square miles - converted to square kilometers
- ↑ History of Goodhue County ( June 6, 2008 memento in the Internet Archive )